Still A4000 format problems easy questions HELP!

[motrucker]

Something in your first post caught my eye - what ROMs are in your machine? You should NEVER see an insert 3.0 volume message! I hope that was a missprint. If not, you problem may be as simple as putting in 3.1 ROMs.
Remember, a few very early A4000s had 3.0 ROMs.

[xrcxj]

My A4000 was up-graded to 3.1 ROM.  At this point I had been wondering if the VT doesn't start because VT WAS NEVER TESTED WITH 3.1 ROM...although some people have said they use OS3.9/3.1 ROM and VT runs fine...what's even funnier is that when I try to install the VT 3.2/5 versions there's nothing in that CD ROM folder showing up...but the VT 4.2 version has files & folders.  I still think my floppy drive is the problem...if not, then whatever boots the hard drive (hard drive is O.K.) when it boots, but sometimes it boots up on the 1st try and sometimes it just doesn't boot up.   Is there something I'm missing????thanks

  It was suggested to get new cables etc.  I figure buying a new floppy disk drive...can I still get a floppy disk drive?  I'm in Japan, so those are pretty out-dated.  The smallest Hard drives they sell in Japan are 40G.  (cost about $40)....
  Sometimes the floppy disk icon is on the WorkBench then it goes back & forth (I'd say every 10 seconds or so).  It's ther, it's NOT there....on & on...what does that mean???  Of course, the disk isn't being read properly.

Any clues???